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and has produced many varieties which vary in size, shape, and flavor. 
Worthy of introduction here, as, after being fairly started, it endures the 
climate well. 
Diospyros Lotus, Zinneus. Parts of the calyx and corolla each in 4; 
leaves ovate, acute, upper side smoothish, lower side pubescent, 2 to 3 inches 
long, I to 1¥ inches wide; lobes of corolla acute, margins hairy; berry the 
size of a cherry. From Southern Europe and Central Asia. 
Diospyros Virginiana, Zinn@us. V1RGINIAN PERSIMMON. Leaves lance- 
shaped or oblong; stamens of the sterile flowers about 16, of the fertile flowers 
8, imperfect ; flowers pale yellow ; fruit about an inch in diameter, edible when 
well ripened or well frosted. Native tree, 20 to 60 feet high; wood hard and 
dark. 
ELAZAGNACEZ. Oleaster Family. 
Shrubs or small trees with silvery scaly hairs; flowers small and with the 
sexes usually separate; corolla none; calyx-tube of the fertile flower enclosing 
the ovary and forming a berry outside the enclosed true fruit. 
Elzagnus. Has the flowers usually perfect. 
Elzagnus argentea, Pursh. SILVER-BERRY. Shrub with “ oval silvery 
leaves and mealy edible berries.”” From our far Western and Northwestern 
regions. 
Elzagnus hortensis, M/arschal/. Shrub or tree, often spiny; lanceolate 
leaves densely white scaly or with stellate hairs on the under surface, greener 
on upper surface. From the Mediterranean region. The variety angustifolia, 
Marschall, is also found in some gardens. 
Elzagnus longipes, said to be a recent introduction from Japan, is 
unknown to us. 
Elzagnus parvifolia, Roy/e. SILVER Moon, FALSE OLIVE. Has the 
branchlets white scaly; smallish elliptical leaves on under surface white 
scaly, with a few brown scales intermixed, upper surface naked, green. Shrub 
from India and China, Not rare in cultivation, under the name of £. reflexa. 
Hippophz. Male and female flowers usually on separate plants ; staminate 
flowers in deciduous clusters, with a single flower under each scale and 2 small 
leaf-like organs embracing the stamens; female flowers solitary, with the seed 
enclosed in a tubular 2-cleft cup. 
Hippophe rhamnoides, Zimmeus. SALLOW THORN, or SEA Buck- 
THORN. Is a thorny shrub widely distributed in Europe and Asia; leaves 
linear to lance-shaped ; silvery flowers and leaves appearing at the same time; 
fruit bright orange, edible, though only used extensively by Tartars and other 
semi-civilized races. 
Shepherdia. Has the male and female flowers on different plants, the 
male with 8 stamens on the disk; “fertile flowers with an urn-shaped 4-cleft 
calyx enclosing the ovary, teeth of the disk closing the orifice.”’ 
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